И наистина, има нещо нелепо в това колективно покорство пред предписаните схеми на сонатата или на симфонията. Да си представим как великите симфонисти, включително Хайдн и Моцарт, Шуман и Брамс, след...
Докато хората са още млади и от музикалната композиция на техния живот са написани едва първите тактове, те могат да я досъчинят заедно и да си разменят мотиви(...); но когато се срещнат в по-зряла въ...
Да се любиш с жена и да спиш с нея са две не само различни, но едва ли не противоположни страсти. Любовта се проявява не чрез плътско желание(това желание може да се отнася за огромен брой жени), а чр...
В този свят всичко е предварително простено, следователно - цинично позволено.
İnsanlar genellikle dertlerinden kurtulmak için geleceğe kaçarlar; zamanın yoluna düşsel bir çizgi çeker, bu çizginin ötesinde o anki dert ve sıkıntılarının sona ereceğini sanırlar.
We live everything as it comes, without warning , like an actor going on cold. and what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? that is why life is always like a sketch. No ,...
Vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
To love someone out of compassion means not really to love
To have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain
The less her life resembled that sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic.
She thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself
Political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.
Perhaps all the questions we ask for love, to measure, test, prob, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved. t...
It is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life...
All languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering
[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.
Ya saben ustedes lo que ocurre cuando dos personas están charlando. Uno habla y el otro le interrumpe. Eso es lo mismo que me pasa a mí, yo... y comienza a hablar de sí mismo hasta que el otro no logr...
Why is it that a dog's menstruation made her lighthearted and gay, while her own menstruation made her squeamish? The answer seems simple to me: dogs were never expelled from Paradise. Karenin knew no...
Why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth to be a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are a...
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I...